The hot summer months in the U.S. can mean sweltering temperatures, unpredictable thunderstorms, and more bug infestations. While it's natural to see more pests during the summertime, though, some ...

Have you ever run so fast that you had to stop and wait for your brain to catch up with what you saw while running? No? Well, it happens to tiger beetles all the time. Tiger beetles are a large group ...

Until we look at the world we live in from an airplane, it’s hard to understand the real meaning of the “big picture.” With the help of EcoFlight, a program designed to “engage America’s youth in the ...

One morning this week while tying some unruly grapevines to their trellis wire, I came across an interesting insect that was hard to miss. It was a grapevine beetle just resting there on a grape leaf.

IDYLLWILD — The trouble started as a rust-colored tinge at the top of the pine trees on Jim Johnson’s lot in this village. Johnson, a lifelong resident of the mountain town, knew what would come next ...

MANGILAO, Guam — One of this island’s most notorious invasive species apparently is helping another, researchers say. A recent study shows that a lack of birds and rats — because of the brown tree ...

Half of Brooks Maloof’s trees were killed due to a pest. Maloof owns an orchard in Puna on Hawaii island. He said it started with a healthy avocado tree about a month after he purchased some mulch.

The big beetle haunted R.J. Steer. For years driving through the canyon country south of Colorado Springs, he winced at the sight of that statue there on the hilltop before May Natural History Museum, ...